The FCT High Court presided over a case filed against popular YouTuber, blogger and self proclaimed freedom fighter, Mr. Martins Vincent Otse, known as Verydarkman, operating on different social media platforms and the Facebook meta platform. The FCT High Court today in fresh proceedings has again started hearing case afresh in respect of case filed by prophet Jeremiah omoto Funfenyi of Deliverance Mercyland International Ministry in Warri, Delta State against VDM.
As the FCT High Court today in the court proceedings stated it will grant fresh orders of status quo injunction on Verydarkman since it's counsel Ademola Adedokun has conceeded to refrain VDM from further libeling and doing any further libelous acts via internet videos and or publishing by Facebook, YouTube video any defamatory works against Prophet Jeremiah omoto Fufenyi.
Today the court heard all pending applications of prophet Jeremiah and VDM preliminary objection and reserved ruling till 2nd July 2025.
According to the statement of claim filed by Prophet Jeremiah’s lead counsel and lawyer, Joel Karatu, Esq. in July 2024, the claimant chronicled the various alleged libellous Facebook and social media publications made against him by Verydarkman.
The plaintiff lamented that the defamatory contents caused him incalculable damage and brought him to ridicule among members of his church and business partners who are spread across the globe. In a case of alleged libel and defamation, Prophet Jeremiah Fufenyi accused Verydarkman of operating on different social media platforms and portraying him in bad light.
The FCT High Court heard the matter today even after painstakingly listening to the submissions of lead counsel to prophet Jeremiah , Human Rights Lawyer in Ihensekhien Samuel Jr. who pointed out that VDM has gone berserk on social media and on daily basics and in different sequence of continuous making defamatory videos, VDM is not just defaming the plaintiff wife, including his church ministry, but regularly also defaming and insulting the plaintiff via his social media mediums in this regard, the presiding judge after hearing counsel for a very dark man in Mr Ademola Oyedoku. Esq, who appeared today in court sitting made a solemn promise to the FCT High court that very dark man known as VDM will cease from any further defaming the plaintiff or undermining the suit and proceedings before court.